But when I start k3b I cant get it to see the burner. Any suggestions? Thanks. I should also note that searching for help says I need to enable HALD but hald has long since been deprecated shoudlnt udev be finding this?_________________--
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I Definitely didn't put my user in the cdrom group, let me do that and post back. And this is a spankin new installation. Thanks. edit-- No that didnt do it for me, I didnt think it would as previously I tried doing it as root for a second and it still didnt work.. Where would it be in /dev? I have no /dev/cdrom or dev/sr0

I think I have most of it it not both selected i just tried enabling shit until things worked sometimes because im almost barely over my head here especially since it seems they are moving everything around a lot lately! But heres lspci and a snippet from make menuconfig. If you want to take the time to tell me what I should and should not have selected id appreciate it. I have an IDE disk which is gentoo and my burner and two sata drives for storage. I can do most of the kernel hacking myself but it does get tedious with a lot of it shifting and being deprecated etc. right now i have all my stuff working except my cdrom but the kernel does notice it.

I did that and it caused a kernel panic I had to reboot the old kernel. Think it mentioned a mount root error_________________--
I am my only local user and I cannot be trusted. This is a generally a very bad thing. Thing is, with *nix where there is a shell there is a way.

The kernel panics results from the new device name, I think. There should be sda and sdb (instead of hda and hdb) for disks and sr0 for cdrom - you would need some device renaming in /etc/fstab. Also check menu.lst.

I unset config_ide i enabled proc/gz or whatever it was and im trying to get a kernel like that i can actually get into by temporarily enabling whatever it is that borked it give me a few minutes to catch up. thanks for your help. i installed udisks too but i still get command not found._________________--
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gentoo mike # zgrep CONFIG_ATA /proc/config.gz
# CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_ATA_OVER_ETH is not set
CONFIG_ATA=y
# CONFIG_ATA_NONSTANDARD is not set
# CONFIG_ATA_VERBOSE_ERROR is not set
# CONFIG_ATA_ACPI is not set
CONFIG_ATA_SFF=y
CONFIG_ATA_BMDMA=y
CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y
# CONFIG_ATA_GENERIC is not set
gentoo mike #

But I no longer have my sata disks because i believe i didnt enable this.

thanks. what would you like me to do now?_________________--
I am my only local user and I cannot be trusted. This is a generally a very bad thing. Thing is, with *nix where there is a shell there is a way.

yup that gave me sdb1 and sdc1 i have my sata disks now thanks. now what would the cdrom be?_________________--
I am my only local user and I cannot be trusted. This is a generally a very bad thing. Thing is, with *nix where there is a shell there is a way.

There was it was called onboard ide operate mode and it was set to enhanced. but when i selected compatibility mode the kernel panicked again I had to set it back. There was nothing for just the cdrom though._________________--
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